LAWNMOWER
MAN 2: BEYOND CYBERSPACE

Description:This Lawnmower Man sequel focuses still on former simpleton Jobe, who's been
rescued from the fireball explosions at the first film's end. In a Los Angeles
of "the future," he's had both legs amputated, his head is shaved, and he's now
played by Matt Frewer. The Virtual Light Institute has Jobe building a chip once
designed by disgraced scientist Dr. Trace (Patrick Bergin). —
Amazon.com

It's
amazing how something that seemed quite fresh and new a mere four
years ago would suddenly seem like a bunch of tired clichés
today, but that's the case with Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond
Cyberspace.

We've
all seen this before: the hackers able to hack into anyplace (Hackers, The Net and a
host of other movies not even worth mentioning); the Bladerunner-like
future Los Angeles, the bad guys dressed like Nazis (the Star Wars movies
and more recently Barbwire), the
virtual reality sequences (the first Lawnmower
Man, Johnny
Mnemonic, etc.)
and the mean virtual motorcycles (Tron).

In
fact leaving this movie one cannot help but speculate on the
death on cyberpunk, because that's what this movie is: brain
dead.